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Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841, British, The Interior of Pitlessie Mill with a Man Sieving Corn, 1818
- Title:
- The Interior of Pitlessie Mill with a Man Sieving Corn
- Date:
- 1818
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 7 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (19 x 29.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on back, lower center: "M board | Narrow antique solid line (touching drawing) [...] | outside 13 1/2 x 20"; on back, lower right: "3 (encircled)"
Signed and dated in brown ink, lower left: "D. Wilkie | 1818"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.2709
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- agricultural equipment | boys | caps | children | corn | dresses | genre subject | hats | interior | labor | laborers | ladder | machinery | mill | peasants | pulley | rural | sieve | stools | tam-o'-shanter | tools | women | workers | working
- Associated Places:
- Europe | Fife | Pitlessie | Scotland | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:19948
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